Psience News - 9-15 February 2020

This is a listing, in progress, of news items about parapsychology, psi, the paranormal and related subjects, posted to the Psience Quest Forums. We hope that news about parapsychology is adequately covered here, but news about other topics will represent only a selection.

For news during other periods, see the Psience News Index.

Extended consciousness phenomena

Psi Encyclopedia

New entries in the Society for Psychical Research's Psi Encyclopedia

• Roger Nelson (Discuss)

• Robert Morris (Discuss)

Articles and blog posts

• An article by Philip Corlett about the COPE (Influence/Control Over Perceptual Experiences) research project, entitled "Varieties Of Voice Hearing", has appeared on the website of Spirit of Change magazine (Discuss)

Videos

• The Society for Scientific Exploration has uploaded videos of presentations from its 2019 Convention (Discuss)
  • Dean Radin, "Expanding the Scope of Mind-Matter Interaction Experiments"
  • Mark Boccuzzi, "Task Optimization in Psi Research"

• The Parapsychological Association has uploaded videos of presentations from its 2019 Convention
  • Paul H. Smith, "What’s in a Name? A Lot, Actually" (Discuss)
  • David T. Saunders, "Mediumship Research in the 21st Century" (Discuss)

Upcoming events

From this and previous pages of Psience News.

• Nancy Zingrone's and Carlos Alvarado's free online course, "Parapsychology Research & Education: Psychology and Parapsychology" (ParaMOOC2020), 18 January-29 February 2020 (Discuss)

• An eight-week online course entitled "Field Investigations: Apparitions, Hauntings, & Poltergeists," by Loyd Auerbach for the Rhine Education Center, will be given between 3 February and 23 March 2020 (Discuss)

• John Fraser will give a lecture entitled "Are Poltergeists Rare? Or are all cases 'Intermediate' with a strange mix of phenomena?" on 13 February 2020 at the Society for Psychical Research (Discuss)

• The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, Edinburgh, will hold a one-day meeting on 22 February 2020 entitled "Psi Saturday" (Discuss)

• Birkbeck, London is holding an event called "A Day on Consciousness" on 23 February 2020, with presentations by Iain McGilchrist (by video link), Anil Seth and Rupert Sheldrake (Discuss)

• A four-week online course entitled "How to Choose a Psychic," by Loyd Auerbach for the Rhine Education Center, will be given between 3 March and 24 March 2020 (Discuss)

• A four-week online course entitled "Presentiment: Exploring the Nature and Theories of Time," by John G. Kruth for the Rhine Education Center, will be given between 4 March and 25 March 2020 (Discuss)

• Matthew Colborn will give a lecture entitled "Sticky Bundles, Leaky Buckets and Rabbit Holes: Understanding the Survival Experience" (Gwen Tate Memorial Lecture) on 5 March 2020 at the Society for Psychical Research (Discuss)

• The 13th Symposium in a series organised by the Bial Foundation on the theme "Behind and Beyond the Brain", entitled "The mystery of time," will be held on 1-4 April 2020 at Porto, Portugal (Discuss)

• Simon Duan will give a lecture entitled "Parallel Universe: Space for Psi" on 2 April 2020 at the Society for Psychical Research (Discuss)

• The Society for Psychical Research will hold a study day on the theme of "Psi and post-materialist science: the search for a new paradigm" on 25 April 2020 (Discuss)

• The Parapsychological Association and the Society for Scientific Exploration are jointly organising a four-day Convention entitled "2020 Vision" on 16-19 June 2020 at Durham, North Carolina (Discuss)

• (NEW) Paul Gaunt will give a lecture entitled "Helen Duncan: Genuine or fraudulent?" on 2 July 2020 at the Society for Psychical Research (Discuss)

Philosophy of mind; consciousness science

Debates and dialogues

• On metaphysics & science, the eighth and final letter, by Massimo Pigliucci, in the dialogue between himself and Philip Goff- On The Problem of Consciousness, Panpsychism & more - has been uploaded to Letter (Discuss)

Alternative Views on Science

Articles and blog posts

• An article by Ed Regis entitled "No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air" has been published by Scientific American (Discuss)

Spirituality

Interviews

• An interview of James Tunney by Jeffrey Mishlove about "Mysticism" has appeared at New Thinking Allowed (Discuss)